For studio recording & mixing, would I need to get a separate headphone amp & DAC? Or would a Baby Face audio interface suffice?
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Of course, you will need a good dac and powerful amp to drive the Sen HD650. It's not highly demanding, but anything out of your computer directly is not powerful enough to drive the Sen HD650 to their potential. I suggest you to take a look at this: http://igg.me/at/geekpulseaudio/x/5192476
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I find them to be very effecient. I dont mix or record but used with 1) My HP Computer 2) Pioneer Elite Reciever or 3) Marantz 8004 SACD Player all have rich full bodied sound at reasonable volume levels. In my opinion a heaphone amp may improve your overall experience but is not necessary in most uses. Try the without the Amp first you can always add one later if needed.
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You will not need a mixer unless you are doing drum type recording and you want to mix down to two tracks. I recorded guitar, bass, and vocals through it. I would recommend the Focusrite 2i2 or the 2i4 any day over this. If you are doing guitars direct you will get a really hot signal and will have to back the volume down to almost nothing on the instrument. It's doable but not ideal. Plus the drivers drove me nuts for a long time. The focusrite worked immidiately. Only one draw back with the Focusrite is to have midi you need the 2i4 which is about 80 to 100$ more then the presonus Audiobox. But way worth the money. You will not need a mixer unless you are doing drum type recording and you want to mix down to two tracks. I recorded guitar, bass, and vocals through it. I would recommend the Focusrite 2i2 or the 2i4 any day over this. If you are doing guitars direct you will get a really hot signal and will have to back the volume down to almost nothing on the instrument. It's doable but not ideal. Plus the drivers drove me nuts for a long time. The focusrite worked immidiately. Only one draw back with the Focusrite is to have midi you need the 2i4 which is about 80 to 100$ more then the presonus... » Read More You will not need a mixer unless you are doing drum type recording and you want to mix down to two tracks. I recorded guitar, bass, and vocals through it. I would recommend the Focusrite 2i2 or the 2i4 any day over this. If you are doing guitars direct you will get a really hot signal and will have to back the volume down to almost nothing on the instrument. It's doable but not ideal. Plus the drivers drove me nuts for a long time. The focusrite worked immidiately. Only one draw back with the Focusrite is to have midi you need the 2i4 which is about 80 to 100$ more then the presonus Audiobox. But way worth the money. « Show Less
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Of course not , If u see from the back panel it was wrote down digital out either coax or rca. U need an headphone amp & DAC, check Fiio, Cambridge AudioExcept u use receiver but it's to complicated get Fiio then u can get a better result, get nice heaphone to pair with it, remember Beats & Bose it is suck (not good with DAC and Headphone Amp. Check Senheisser, Grado between 70 to 90 that already nice.
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Hi, no, you still need an amplified or mini system with phono sockets. Most mini or midi hifis dont enable you to use a recordplayer without a pre amp but you can with this
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Should work . I think any interface would have 1/4 inch or xlr inputs . I think most people who record guitar direct without a amp use a di box
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I use this set up on a daily basis with a "Zalman" mic. The set-up works great, my only gripe would be both cables are verrryy long so it can be an annoyance. I currently do not use a amp or dac but I heard from a close friend using this with a Astro Mix-amp works very well. If I had to do it again, I would go with a MOD MIC 4.0 instead of the Zalman for the fact that you can clip it on the ear cup and flip it up when your done. Hope this helps.
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I advise Scarlett 2i4 if you need 2 separate outputs for DJing, NI does the same but I had glitches on this soundcard.Roland is decent choice for sure, had good experience with M-Audio too.
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This mic needs phantom power, usually present in mixing boards, dont know what your audio interface actually is.
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AUX input would be fine, but the best sound quality would come from a DAC. Take a look at some of the cheaper Schiit stuff.
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You should be able to plug into both without issue... unless your audio interface doesn't have XLR input output on it.
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I recommend an LPK25 MIDI keyboard and some headphones. That's my setup including reason essentials (I do have some m-audio bx5 studio monitors, but you don't need them just starting out.) I plan on upgrading to full Reason 6.5 or 7, but not getting any additional equipment right now. Hope this helps. Have fun!
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I would suggest an audio interface. Presonus, Apogee, Focusrite, and others make great interfaces that will allow you to hook up the mic to the computer. I would suggest a pop filter with the mic and using phantom power for a condenser mic. Depending on what you want to do, having DAW software will take you one step further.
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Also, if what you want to do is hook up a studio-quality microphone to your computer (rather than mix several audio inputs in realtime) you're better off with a dedicated mike preamp like the Art Tube Studio and a USB sound card (cheap ones are fine).
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Agree with other folks who posted; get a headphone amp or maybe a USB DAC to take on the work of sound processing from the integrated sound card. Though they have gotten better integrated sound cards suck compared to a dedicated card or device. I was looking at picking up Audioengine D1 24-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter for my PC; so that I can connect my monitors and also use the head phone jack for these PC350 or my HD 600s.
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its basically a mixer, no power to speak of, you get a preamp when using the xlr input and the corresponding input thats below it. you need either an amp or powered speakers, Im using some cheap though nice sounding altec lansing monitors. Im going for small, large amps are a pain to carry around!
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I would certainly get a separate phono preamp if you budget allows, the built-in/usb model is a very basic quality preamp. If you never have any plans of upgrading from the 2M Red cartridge then the built in is probably adequate.
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Nope. You will need either powered speakers or an amp. It's a great little mixer. I love it.